2010年10月电子商务英语自考试题

全国（湖北省）2010年10月自考
电子商务英语试题
课程代码：00888
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一、词汇和语法（本大题共20小题，每小题1分，共20分）
根据句子的意思选择一个正确的答案，错选、多选或未选均无分。 
1. According to a recent report, ______ that Americans consume does not vary greatly from year to year.
A. the number of sugar  B. a number of sugar
C. the amount of sugar  D. an amount of sugar
2. ______ were naturally a musical family.
A. A Shaw  B. The Shaws
C. The Shaw  D. Shaws
3. That kind of shoes are______ expensive for me.
A. more  B. far more
C. far too  D. much
4. It______ for two days and the field were all under water.
A. rained  B. had been raining
C. was raining  D. would have rained
5. Those who don’t work hard at English ought to______.
A. criticize  B. be criticized
C. have been criticized  D. be criticizing
6. Written in great haste,______ .
A. Jim made a lot of mistakes in the report
B. there are plenty of errors in the report
C. we found several mistakes in his report
D. the book is full of errors
7. “Must I come at four o’clock?” “Oh no, you______ come at four.”
A. can’t   B. may not
C. needn’t   D. mustn’t
8. If you______ that late movie last night, you wouldn’t be sleepy now.
A. hadn’t watched  B. didn’t watch
C. haven’t watched  D. wouldn’t have watched
9. No one is interested in that,______?
A. is he  B. isn’t he
C. aren’t they  D. are they
10. I have never taken anything______ didn’t belong to me.
A. what  B. who
C. that  D. which
11.The______ medical team will soon be here.
A. mobile  B. changeable
C. stable  D. steady
12. A poor memory______ her efforts to become an actress.
A. encouraged  B. accomplished
C. frustrated  D. devoted
13. We allowed the warm water to______ us.
A. join   B. clasp
C. embrace  D. contain
14. One warning______ to stop her doing it.
A. suffered  B. sufficed
C. suggested  D. provided
15. We can visit your company on Monday or Tuesday; our plans are fairly______.
A. flexible  B. elastic
C. supple  D. compliant
16. He______ his first book to his mother.
A. committed  B. dedicated
C. assigned  D. appointed
17. The plane is______ to take off at 4.
A. enlisted   B. enrolled
C. prompted  D. scheduled
18. They are______ a mass production movement.
A. firing  B. launching
C. introducing   D. presenting
19. They’ve______ the prices in the shop, so it’s a good time to buy.
A. deduced  B. decreased
C. reduced  D. lessened
20. The children______ against each other to win yearly scholarship.
A. contest   B. fight
C. rival   D. compete
二、完形填空(本大题共10小题，每小题1分，共10分)
从选择项中选择一个最适合短文的选项，错选、多选或未选均无分。
Human beings act in a different way from   21   of animals just because they can speak while animals cannot.  22   the cleverest animals cannot do things which to us seem very
  23   and which small children,  24   they learn to talk, would be able to do.

A German scientist, who   25   experiments for many years with big apes, found that his apes could   26   his sticks as tools to pull down bananas which they could not   27   . But they only used the stick to get a banana when both the banana and the stick were   28   view at the same time. If the banana was in front of them and the stick was behind them, they could not use the stick. They could not   29   the banana   30   enough in mind to look around and then pick up the stick and use it.
21. A. that  B. this  C. way  D. eat
22. A. Even if  B. Even  C. Though  D. When
23. A. honest  B. foolish  C. simple  D. evident
24. A. as soon as B. as long as  C. as far as  D. so long as
25. A. carried B. dealt  C. developed  D. performed
26. A. take  B. hold  C. use  D. regard
27. A. get  B. reach  C. eat  D. take
28. A. in  B. beyond  C. for  D. with
29. A. maintain  B. keep  C. remain  D. insert
30. A. clear  B. alive  C. long  D. complete
三、阅读理解（本大题共10小题，每小题2分，共20分）
阅读下面的短文，从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个最佳答案填空或答题，错选、多选或未选均无分。

Passage 1

Shopping-bag ladies don’t beg publicly, but they do not refuse what is offered. Once a shopping-bag lady appears where you live, it is as hard to pass her by without giving her some money as it is to pay no attention to the collection box in church. And although you may not like it, if she chooses your doorway as her place to sleep in the night, it is as morally hard to turn her away as it is to do with a lost dog.

Most shopping-bag ladies seem to be between the ages of 40 and 65. They wear layers of clothes even in summer time, with newspapers filled between the layers as something against bad weather.
No one knows how many shopping-bag ladies there are in New York. The number is going up. Some persons and researchers spend a great deal of time taking care of or observing shopping-bag ladies and doing what they can to better the life lady hermits（隐士） who’re down.
31．Shopping-bag ladies are ______.
A. lady beggars
B. ladies who sell shopping-bags
C. ladies who make shopping-bags
D. Those who go hungry
32．They fill newspapers between the layers of their clothes because ______.
A.they are so poor
B.they have no place to put them
C.they want to hide them
D.they have to use them to keep the cold out
33．Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A.There are more and more shopping-bag ladies in the United States.
B.Shopping-bag ladies appear only in New York.
C.Some people are helping shopping-bag ladies.
D.Some people are engaged in their research on these shopping-bag ladies.

Passage 2

Relaxation therapy (=treatment). If you read the sentence out loud, your blood pressure will go up. If you talk to another person, it will go still higher. If the talk is with your boss, your pressure will go even higher. If you speak to someone of the opposite sex, your pressure may show less change if you’re married than if you’re single.
Dozens of times each day, your blood pressure changes with what you’re feeling and doing. These “ups and downs” take place in everyone, but they are more severe in people with high blood pressure. That discovery is the basis for the newest therapy: controlling blood pressure by learning skills to control everyday stress.

Many patients control their blood pressure with the relaxation response. This takes four simple things: a quiet environment, a comfortable po